Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-18
FATHER mcGLYNN.
Views Of His People Concerning
His Removal.

His Removal.
New YORK, January l7.-An i'm
mense crowd of people thronged to st.
Stephens Roman Catholic Church, in
this city, yesterday. The news that
Father Donnelly had been appointed to
succeed Rev. DR.. McGlynn brought out
the crowd. The scene was most ex.
citing one. The great throng was seem.
ingly indignant at the removal of Dr.
McGlynn. An indignation meeting was
held in the basement of the church. I'm.
pressive speeches were made urging the
people to stand by their pastor. The
audience cheered, stamped and shouted.
Vesper service was poorly attended.
| After this was done word was sent in
by messenger for the meeting to dis.
perse, as Pastor Donnelly had sent for
the police to close the hall. As the peo-
pie filed out upon the sidewalk squad
of police came up with drawn clubs.
There was nothing for them to do.
A number of Catholics and others not
members of st. Stephens parish was also
held in the Cooper Union to endorse DR..
McGlynn, and the large auditorium was
crowded to its utmost capacity. The
meeting was under the auspices
Of the Central Labor Union,
which is chiefly made up of
followers Of Henry George. Addresses
were made, in which it was stated that
DIR. McGlynn had been made the victim
of Tammany Hall; objecting to foreign
interference in our political affairs, and
quoting from Catholic writers of other
days to show that the land theories of
Henry George and DR.. McGlynn were
not new nor anti. Catholic. A long
series of resolutions was passed, reciting
in the preamble the causes which led up
to the suspension of DR.. McGlynn,
quoting Archbishop Crooks and Bishop
Nulty in support of the peoples owner.
ship in land, and to the effect that
no ecclesiastical authority has
any right to prescribe or
prescribe in politics. The resolution
continued "as Catholics loyal to our re-
ligion and its highest interests, we pro.
test most emphatically against any at
tempt to extend the ecclesiastical au-
thority into the sphere of politics, and
while cheerfully yielding full obedience
to the authority of the church in mat.
ters of religion, we emphatically deny
the right of the Pope, the Propaganda
or the Archbishop to pre- scribe for Amer.
ican Catholics, lay or cleric, what eco.
nomic opinions they shall express or
what line of political action they
shall pursue or abstain from,
and we denounce any attempt to infu.
ence ecclesiastical penalties upon Ameri.
can citizens, lay or cleric, for their
political speech or action, as dragging
of religion into politics that is both
scandalous to the church and dangerous
to the principles of American freedom,
and we further protest against DR.. Nc
Glynn's summons to Rome, to account
for his political opinions and actions, as
an attempt to establish dangerous
precedent that an American citizen can
be questioned in foreign country for
his course in American politics. The
resolutions also pledged him all the sup
moral and material.
The Tribune will tomorrow publish
letter in which the writer says that
Archbishop Corrigan told him that the
suspension of Rev. DIR. McGlynn was not
on his own responsibility. but that an
order came direct from Rome.
About 5000 of the late parishioners of |
DR.. McGlynn, the suspended pastor of st. |
Stephens Church, gathered about the
building this evening in response to
call to express sympathy with him.
The great schoolroom in the base.
ment was quickly crowded, while
MANY were unable to obtain admission.
Resolutions were unanimously passed,
many ef those present listening to their
reading with startling eyes, reciting
their love for the deposed Priest and the |
outrage to their feelings occasioned by |
what they considered his past treatment,
appointing a committe to wait upon
Arch Bishop Corrigan to request his re-
instatement, pledging themselves not to
contribute penny to the support of the
parish while ministered over by the new
rector, Mr.. Donnelly, or until DR.. Nc
Glynn is restored to the pastorate.